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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808653303321

Autore

Tanaka Tetsuji

Titolo

Risk assessment of food supply [[electronic resource] ] : a computable general equilibrium approach / / Tetsuji Tanaka with Nobuhiro Hosoe and Huanguang Qiu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., c2012

ISBN

1-4438-4684-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (157 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HosoeNobuhiro

QiuHuanguang

Disciplina

363.8

Soggetti

Food supply - Japan - Econometric models

Computable general equilibrium models

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sommario/riassunto

In recent years, food prices have been volatile worldwide. High and fluctuating food prices have led to riots in many low income countries, and have increased the world poverty population. Both developed and developing nations are rushing to buy farmland, even outside their own countries, for their future food security, which indicates that it has been more difficult to secure food supplies. This book addresses the issue of agricultural trade liberalisation by Japan, factors behind the world...